“” Why buy a Mac at € 6,000 when you can set up an over -equipped office PC for much cheaper? “, This is probably what many clubic readers will say while browsing this test of the Mac Studio M4 Max.
The question arises, and it is legitimate, but it passes, frankly, next to the subject. Because what Mac Studio offers above all is a perfect balance at the service of content creation. The average user will never be affected by this product, which is mainly intended for professionals, production boxes and wealthy power-users.
For a lower price, a large PC tower would surely develop more performance, graphics in particular, but with the counterpart of a much more important size … and a very relative energy sobriety (it is enough to take a look at the TGP of the last GeForce RTX to convince itself).
With the Mac Studio, Apple is therefore very advantageously positioned with the target audience to the point-according to us-to perhaps limit the interest of the Mac Pro.
That said, the Cupertino giant is not completely cardboard with his mac studio,
The very limited hardware scope of this compact workstation is to be pointed out, in the same way as the absence (incomprehensible in 2025 at this price level) of Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.